Robinson K, Conroy R M, Mulcahy R
Cardiac Department, St Vincent's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
Br Heart J. 1988 Dec;60(6):465-9. doi: 10.1136/hrt.60.6.465.
Nine hundred and seventy eight patients with a first documented myocardial infarction were studied to detect smoking related differences in clinical profile and in-hospital outcome. The distribution of infarct sites differed significantly between smokers and non-smokers. Smokers had higher peak cardiac enzyme concentrations. In spite of this, smokers had a better prognosis than non-smokers. There are important differences between smokers and non-smokers, both in clinical profile and in-hospital outcome, which may reflect a difference in the nature of the underlying coronary disease.